FORT PIERCE — The nonprofit Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) is expanding the types of products that are eligible for financing through the energy retrofit program.
The SELF Board of Directors recently approved adding solar pool heaters and variable speed pool pumps to the list of approved products, and the organization will now finance green products for new construction along with retrofitting existing homes.
SELF was 1 of 20 programs in America selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive funding through the highly competitive Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, and these new energy saving products were beyond the scope of the original grant.
However, as SELF transitions from grant administrator to independent nonprofit organization, the board is expanding the product types and the geographic scope of the program.
SELF only provides financing for proven energy saving and renewable energy technologies that have been independently tested and vetted. The organization also has a Product Research Committee comprised of architects, engineers, and technicians who further scrutinize all products before recommending approval to the SELF Board of Directors.
SELF strives to achieve a minimum of 15% reduction in energy usage per client and to date has achieved an average of more than 20% per household.
“The organization is able to achieve these results by performing an energy audit and then recommending cost effective improvements with proven technologies. Solar pool heaters and variable speed pool pumps can reduce average electricity bills by as much as $30-50 per month, depending on run time,” explained SELF’s Regional Program Manager Julian Nazario.
For more information about SELF, please call our headquarters at (772) 468-1818 or visit the website at www.CleanEnergyLoanProgram.org or www.Facebook.com/SolarEnergyLoanFund.
